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Off The Record

Motley Crue - Greatest Hits

More famous lately for their non-musical pursuits, this disc serves a refresher course for the band that started a musical revolution still felt today.  Covering over 15 years of bold, in-your-face hitmaking, and including two great new cuts produced by Bob Rock, the Crue make no apologies for being what they are, one of the boldest, brashest bands to ever strut the stage. If they keep this up, these boys are gonna end up in an institution; the Rock n' Roll hall of fame. Get it.

At The Movies

The Rugrats Movie

One of the most popular cartoons on television makes the successful leap to the big screen.  Taken from a child's perspective, this bright and refreshing film never underestimates its audience, and manages to appeal to kids through adults.  All the favorites are here, from Tommy to Angelica, as their myriad of adventures include a new little brother for the Pickles family. Great family fare.

On Video

Six Days, Seven Nights

Modern interpretation of a classic screwball comedy scenario: A gruff, wisecracking cargo pilot (Harrison Ford) and a sensual but tough New York magazine editor (Anne Heche) are thrown together when they crash land on a deserted island. The bickering pair not only have to struggle with themselves and their environment in order to survive, but they most fend off modern-day pirates to fight their way off the island. A frothy comic romance.

The Buzz...

Proving once again that people have more money than brains, the hot toy this holiday season is Furby, Tiger Electronics Inc.'s animatronic toy that reacts to touch and speaks its own language. An online site, CyberShop's EGift which placed large Furby orders earlier this year, is profiting from its foresight. Furby's price tag is a whopping $92.96, for a toy that usually retails for $30. One doll, a rare all-black Furby in a sealed box, was sold for over $1,000 last week.

The box office soared to just short of $600 million for November, setting a new record, thanks in large measure to Disney's unexpected sensation The Waterboy, starring Adam Sandler.

If you can't think of the perfect gift for that music loving fan, try a couple of tickets to Zone for the Holidays, the annual multi-band extravaganza put on by Zone 105. This years line up includes Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Semisonic, Marcy Playground, Beck, Garbage and the Goo Goo Dolls all in one show that starts at 3 PM December 19th at the Target Center in Minneapolis. 

The sequel to Toy Story has been scripted, and features Woody being stolen by a toy collector because of his secondary market value. All the other toys try to rescue him, but by the time they get there, Woody has bought into the whole idea of himself as a priceless collectible rather than a fun child's toy, and Buzz Lightyear, of all people, has to convince Woody of the essential nobility of being a toy.

Eddie Murphy will star in a sci-fi comedy called Pluto Nash, directed by Ron Underwood, who just completed Mighty Joe Young.

The movie Muppets From Space will center around Gonzo, who, as many fans have long suspected, is not any kind of terrestrial animal at all, but a visitor from another planet.

Look for a big selling soundtrack to come from the yet to be released movie, The Faculty. Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will perform a cover of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, Creed and Soul Asylum cover Alice Cooper, and the Offspring will contribute a new tune.

Marilyn Manson's bodyguards allegedly choked one of the executive editors of Spin magazine after a show in New York, over Manson's exclusion on the cover of January's issue. Marilyn posted an official statement on his website stating that a conversation took place buy no assault occurred.

Kate Mulgrew, star of Star Trek: Voyager, is engaged to marry Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagen. 

A 29-year-old Brazilian underwear model, Luciana Gimenez Murad, may be to blame for the marital problems recently reported between Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. Giminez denies having an affair with the Rolling Stone, but admits, Mick is kind of handsome in his little skinny kind of way.

The president of the Children's Rights Council says Metallica should be prosecuted under the child-abuse laws, for their video version of Bob Seger's Turn the Page. The dark clip portrays a young girl sleeping while her mother, a prostitute, plies her trade in the next room.

More casting news from the Austin Powers sequel. Burt Bacharach will appear to sing his song, I'll Never Fall in Love Again with Elvis Costello, the role of Mini-Me, a miniature clone of Dr. Evil, will be played by Vern Troyer, and Frau Farbissina, founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army, will be reprising her role as well.

LeVar Burton, who plays Geordi LaForge in the upcoming Star Trek: Insurrection, said that in the film, his character, blind from birth, acquires the power of sight.

Pixar, which created Toy Story and A Bug's Life, is at it again with their fourth movie in development, titled either Hidden City or Monsters, Inc. Either way, it's about a group of monsters who live under a little boy's bed and the entire world they create there.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise are reportedly considering working together on a science fiction film called Minority Report.

Lenny Kravitz and former Living Color guitarist Vernon Reid are among the artists interviewed for a Jimi Hendrix documentary to be released next year. Hendrix's father and half-sister run the company releasing the film and accompanying CD.